The athletes should be organised so that they are only performing the skills off a few steps this will help to prevent the athletes from jumping too far and possibly jumping OVER the pit!.The surface along the side of the pit must be stable and flat enough to allow a safe take-off.The pit must be deemed wide enough by the coach to safely allow jumping skills to be performed across it.A lesser number of lines may have to be used, depending on the length of the sand pit. In addition, with a class of up to thirty children, having five lines of six children is far preferable to one line of thirty children. In this situation up to five children can jump into the pit at the same time. I will organise the children in up to five evenly spaced lines along the side of the pit. Where possible, I usually begin each of my sessions with the athletes performing jumping skills from the side of the pit. Thus the coach must look for ways to keep the group active and engaged, and allow each athlete as many jumps as possible in the time available. Generally there is only one landing area that must be shared among the entire group. Long jump is an activity that is potentially low in activity time. Teaching long jump to a large group presents a number of organizational problems for the coach. The skills included are generally applicable to 5-12 year-olds, but of course how much you can get through in one session and the language and instructions you use will differ across the age groups. I have used these teaching steps with class-sized groups of up to thirty children within a thirty minute session and with smaller groups during coaching clinics. The following sequence of activities can be used to teach long jump to beginners. Check out the video from Luka Hocevar below.Coach Young Athletes to Long Jump in 3 Easy Steps Get The E-Book Version Of This Post Including A Bonus Cheat Sheet Overall this video is definitely worth checking out and even if all the activities weren’t a hit with my group, the athletes appreciated the variety and we’ll definitely replay a couple of the games across the season. The ‘Reactive Stick Drill’ (from 1sec) was mildly enjoyable, but the general consensus was that it wasn’t as enjoyable as the ‘Cone Grab’ activity that we play, which has the additional competition element ( see page 5 here for an overview of our version). It may have been a little too advanced for junior athletes and we would have been better off just sticking with the mirror activity, without the foam roller between the athletes. There were also a few complaints about it causing a pain on their heads, so tread carefully with this one. We couldn’t get the ‘Bear Foam Roller Connect’ (from 1min3sec) to work with any of our athletes and they seemed to lose interest in the activity quite quickly. With the older guys we tried to give the leader a muscle group to focus on with mixed results, but it was interesting to see the athletes thinking about how different movements can test different muscle groups. We did a bit of a different version with one athlete leading the whole group, giving each athlete a chance. The Animal Movement Mirror (from 1min55sec) was very popular with the younger athletes. As with all core-intensive exercises, you will just need to be careful you’re not overloading the core muscles too much in the warm up, to the point where form breaks down during the main session. As a coaching cue keep the athlete’s knees of the ground to keep the intensity up. We were surprised at how quickly it was able to get the athlete’s heart rates up and there were a few comments about feeling it in the core. The Bear Shoulder Tap game (from 41 seconds) was a massive hit for the teenagers (especially the boys).
The group was made up of athletes between 9 and 15 years of age, and in general the response was positive.
I’m always on the look out for new and interesting activities that can be introduced into a training session to keep things fun and fresh for my athletes.ĭuring my last training session we tried out a few of the 14 activities from in the warm up of my sessions.
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